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Casting Japanese performers from Japan may be debatable, but I wonder why Tamlyn Tomita isn't in the film. She pretty much a leading Japanese-American actress, isn't she? She would've made a great Hat ...

Krim wrote:
the problem with using those examples is that they aren't made for the global market

Sakura is surely made for viewers in the U.S. to see. Also Swallowtail directed by Shunji Iwai was ...

Enna wrote:
[Yeah for some reason only Caucasians were allowed to portray other races or nationalities or cultures in a derogatory manner. Hmmm maybe because they held the purse strings and still do ...

Enna, you've slightly misunderstood my statement on the ugliness and Chinese casting, but never mind. I see your pov.

Okay, so not many people seem to think that the geisha's were ugly. I don't have a problem with that.

About casting the Chinese, for one thing, the Chinese share a much more larger population on th ...

Hi everybody,

I just learned about this forum yesterday, and I hope I'm doing this right. I'm a Japanese female who grew up in L.A. but now live in Japan, saw Memoirs of a Geisha at the theater, de ...